From Hermeneutics to Critical Realism: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese-Canadians, Canadian-Chinese

Abstract

In its elaboration of the essentials of ethnographic methodology, it addresses the basic philosophical ideas and propositions of interpretivism and critical realism and analyzes the characteristics of ethnographic research from these two perspectives. It interprets the classic ethnographic research of Chinese-Canadians, Canadian-Chinese: Coping and Adapting in North America. It analyzes the essential features of ethnographic methodology in the specific case study from hermeneutics and critical realism perspectives. At the same time, it explains the particular application of ethnographic methods in this classic case study and analyzes its research process and results. It also proposes the theoretical view that ethnographic case studies must follow the trends of social sciences and suggests concrete strategies for ethnographic research from the perspective of critical realism.